I used to manage a few directories recursively and it was very slow and cumbersome. I just manage the directories themselves if i need to and the files individually. It makes it a bit more complex initially but you get fine grained control over things and it's so much faster.
If you really need to manage a directory recursively and there is no other way I recommend using your preferred version control system. If you want to do that easily with puppet then puppetlabs/vcsrepo on the forge looks like the nicest way of doing it. On 10 January 2013 16:39, Denmat <tu2bg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Smaller directories? :) > > But seriously Puppet sucks at distributing large directories (you should > see posts to the list going back years on this topic). If you look at the > file type resource docs ( > http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/stable/type.html#file)you can see > you can change the checksum used, ignore files (unsure of speed > improvements there), recurselimit to limit the depth of recursion and > possibly the mtime attribute. > > Alternatively, if running *nix you could try rsync in an exec. > > Your mileage may vary, > > Den > > On 10/01/2013, at 12:01, Schofield <dbschofi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have several directories that are installed and managed with puppet. I > am finding the majority of the time of the puppet run is spent validating > the directory. Are there any tricks to improve the performance of managed > directories? Or a better way than simple file resource with ensure => > directory and recurse => true? > > file {'/xyz/directory' : > ensure => directory, > recurse => true, > source => "puppet:///modules/mymod/directory", > } > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/TuE-ygecAngJ. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
